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Big Search – Lay of the Land
What’s up people. Today’s music of focus comes from a man you may already be familiar with. If you’ve ever heard bands like Foreign Born and Fool’s Gold, then you’re already halfway there. BIG SEARCH...
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Woods – I Was Gone 7″
What’s up people. I thought this stuff here would be perfect for the Halloween weekend. It’s something I forgot about for awhile, but it’s still awesome and it still came out pretty recently. It’s a...
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Lord Huron – Mighty EP
Hey! Last time we heard from LORD HURON it was back in August when the sun was shining and the heat was a reason to be upset. Now we’re nearing the colder months of the year, and Lord Huron drops his...
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Horse Feathers – Drain You 7″
Coming from the Kill Rock Stars imprint we have a delightfully new 7″ from Portland’s own HORSE FEATHERS today. This 7″ was just put out at the beginning of the month, and it’s significance comes...
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Polly Pockets – Weird Floor Head Face
POLLY POCKETS uses her drum machine, an acoustic guitar, and just the right amount of weirdness to create quite peculiar, airy and delicate songs. She’s got plenty of free downloads on her Bandcamp...
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Mutual Benefit/ Holy Spirits – Mutual Spirts 12″
Here we’ve got the first release from Father/ Daughter records since the turn of the new year. Featured on this split 12″ are two names that you should have no trouble grouping together, including...
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Whiting Tennis – Every Night I’m Killing 7″
Fin Records continues to churn out the goods, this time from WHITING TENNIS who also happens to hail from Seattle much like the rest of the growing Fin Records roster. While we weren’t exactly...
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Graves – Summr Bummr
GRAVES is Greg Olin from Portland, Oregon. His latest record “Summr Bummr” from St. Ives is a fifteen track journey through a lofty jazz-folk universe unlike anything we’ve heard all year. Believe it...
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Campfires – Mystery Scapes CS
This is at least the second cassette from CAMPFIRES in 2012, while a third came out right before the new year in 2011. This new full length tape comes from Terroir Editions in a short run of just 100...
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Cult of Youth – Love Will Prevail
After a little over a year, CULT OF YOUTH come back with their second album for the Sacred Bones Records label. Love Will Prevail offers a challenging combination of both post-punk and folk rock. It’s...
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Campfires – Tomorrow, Tomorrow
It’s taken some time but the debut LP from CAMPFIRES is almost here. Tomorrow, Tomorrow is Jeff Walls’ first release since moving from Chicago to Portland and also his first for Fire Talk label in...
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The Young Sinclairs – New Day 7″
Luckily for us there’s still a new 7″ from THE YOUNG SINCLAIRS we haven’t covered yet. It’s the same deal as their first – a split 7″ release from French labels Croque Macadam and Requiem Pour un...
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Clawhammer – I Think I Heard a Sound 7″
Wee Rock Records in Springfield, MO just dropped a new 7″ single from CLAWHAMMER, a 4-piece folk band also from Springfield who began playing together in 2011 with some different ideas. Considering...
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MMOSS & Quilt – New Hampshire Freaks 10″ EP
MMOSS and QUILT have teamed up for a special release from Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records in Brooklyn, NY. It’s a full-on 20 minute EP of all things psych, folk and New Hampshire. They have fittingly...
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Psychic Baos – The Death of Bob Plant CS
Part of a recent batch of cassette tapes from Magnetic South Recordings in southern Indiana is from twisted Tennessee garage rockers PSYCHIC BAOS. The Death of Bob Plant cassette has unfortunately...
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Throwback Thursday: Lewis – The Man Who Fell To Earth?
Eric Schlitter writes and operates his own blog The 13th Track. Throwback Thursday is his bi-weekly installment for the Styrofoam Drone, where Eric focuses on reissues of old albums and archival...
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Robyn Hitchcock – The Man Upstairs
It’s December 1996 at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, NJ. I’m interviewing ROBYN HITCHCOCK pre-show and we’re talking about the afterlife, endorphins, Captain Beefheart and the 1960’s. From the first song on...
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Wind Atlas – Lingua Ignota LP
WIND ATLAS hail from Barcelona, Spain. Their sophomore LP Lingua Ignota was just released by Burka For Everybody Records, containing an otherworldly journey of mystical and medieval psychedelic folk....
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Dividers – Fourwalls Farewell
The two labels that put out this DIVIDERS record said it best – “Dividers speed up and purify these folk melodies.” Fourwalls Farewell is the Toulouse-based band’s debut LP, released by both Casbah...
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Olden Yolk – s/t LP
Trouble in Mind presents the brand new album from OLDEN YOLK, a 4-piece based in New York City. Ten lush tracks fill their eponymous debut, clocking in for nearly 40 minutes of clean and colorful rock...
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